Roof for buildings



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R. WRIGHT.

ROOF FOR BUILDINGS.

APPLICATION FILEDJULY 26.1919.

Patented Apr; 6, 1920.

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Application filed .Tiily 2G, 1919. Serial No. $13,502

To all it may concern:

' Be it known that I,.RAY WRIGHT, a citizen of the United States of America,and resi- 4 dent of Jackson, county of Hinds, and State .5 of Mississippi, have inventedce'rtain new anduseful A Improvements in Roofs for Buildings, of which the following'is a speci-- '-fication.- I

This invention relates to wooden build- 10 'ings'and particularly to protectors for roofs of buildings.

An object of this invention is to provide novel means for coveringthe edges ofroofs hat the eaves and the said invention haspanticular reference to a means for protecting 1 edges ofa s'phalt shingles where the same .are laid over old Wooden shingles.

L Ordinarily when asphaltashingles are laid their edges along the eaves present a rough .20 and uneven frazzled appearance and it is the purpose' of this invention'to provide a metal trimming for protecting 'theseedges while, at the same time, giving .a finished Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the finish Specificationof Letters Patent.

I Patented Apr. 6, 1920.

ing strip employed in this embodiment of the invention. I

In these drawingst denotes the-ordinary sheathing and 6 the ordinary shingles of wooden buildings. 7 illustrates'fthe asphalt roofing which terminates atthe ends of the shingle 6. v

The metal in this cap employed in'thisembodiment comprises a plate 8 secured to the shingle 6 under the asphalt roofing, said plate having a downwardly extending lock.

portion 9 and an inwardly extending flange. embrace the ends of the said shin- 10 which gles.

fastenings '11 such as nails, and when. the cap is 111- place the exposed metal at the. edges of the eaves cap gives the appearance of-a metal roof and at the sametime it constitutes a arotectin inclosure for the ends 'of the shingles.

In a roofing construction for woodenbuildings, sheathing, shingles secured'to the sheathing, said shingles extending beyond The plate 8 is attached to the shingies by one end of the sheathing, a metallic plate V havin a'downwardl' and inwardl extend" ing flange adapted toembrace the eigtmzded ends of the shingles, means for securing the 'plate to the shingles, and layers of asphalt roofing material secured to the shingles and. plate, the asphalt roofing material being arrangedin spaced relation with the shingles.

ear Warner. 

